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8.16.2016

Who You Gonna Call? Not Ghostbusters!

A writer’s mind is an interesting thing. It starts with the
question, What If? And goes from
there.

For the upcoming Untethered Realms short story anthology, Ghosts of Fire, my story was born in much this way…

Who’s in charge of monitoring threats to your country? In
the United States we have homeland security and in the United Kingdom MI5 is in
charge of domestic security. Both countries are well versed in threats to their
respective countries, who’s behind them, and how to protect against them.

But what if there were threats most people didn’t know about or even believe in?

As in the supernatural kind?

Who you gonna call?

Not Ghostbusters, that’s for sure! Not for serious threats
to your country.

The general public doesn’t know about these threats and it’s
best to keep it that way. No reason to cause mass panic. Chaos would reign. Just take care of the
problem.

That’s where Secret Branch comes in. Its existence is known
only to the Prime Minister and a few of his cabinet members. And what of the
special agents who work for Special Branch? They have special gifts, of course; the
ability to see supernatural beings and the skills to rid England of any threats
coming from them.

In Mind the Gap, one
such special agent wants to gain favor with a particularly attractive detective
he knows, so he sets out to find the art thief she’s after using good old
fashioned investigative skills.

But when you’re a “special” agent, the
supernatural are always going to have other ideas.